Meet the West’s ‘Frankenstein Monster’

Longtime former Malaysian Prime Minister Dr.Mahathir Mohamad, one of the most respectedfigures in Asia and throughout theentire Muslim world, has issued a blistering indictment of Israel and its supporters in the West.

A familiar figure to many AMERICAN FREE PRESS readers—who haveenjoyed the popular trilogy* byMahathir’s former cabinet-level political advisor, Matthias Chang—Mahathir’s biting essay, “A LawlessWorld,” published in Kuala Lumpur’s New SundayTimes on November 11, reflects an ever-spiraling negative opinion toward Israel and the United States. It shouldbe a warning to Americans who continue to support war-mongering New World Order-style internationalismthat’s made many more enemies for Americathan our founding fathers could have ever imagined.

Reflecting on recent Israeli attacks on Sudan, which Mahathir called “an outrageous act [and] an exampleof Israeli disregard for international laws,” Mahathirnoted that “the very real possibility of beingbombed by Israel creates insecurity for other countries,”citing previous Israeli aggression—such as the bombing of Iraq’s nuclear reactor in 1981—committedwhen Israel wasn’t even at war with those nations.

Noting the Israelis claimed Sudan was supplyingarms to the Palestinians, Mahathir commented that“whether that is true or not, the fact remains Israel itself is being supplied with all kinds of sophisticatedweapons by the United States and Europe to be usedas Israel thinks fit.” He also noted that Israel has a nuclear arsenal, unlike any other nation in the Mideast.

Charging that “to ensure Israeli security, the powers-that-be allow Israel to break all international lawsand norms of behavior,” he cited Israel’s attacks on Gaza-bound relief ships in international waters, itsbuilding of settlements on Palestinian land and theerection of walls through Palestinian villages cutting off communications between Palestinian communitiesand families. He also recalled the murder of theyoung American woman, Rachel Corrie, run over by an Israeli bulldozer as she peacefully picketedagainst Israeli destruction of Palestinian homes.

“Never in the history of nations has there beensuch a country as Israel. It disregards laws [and] indulgesin aggression and pre-emptive strikes without justification,” said Mahathir. The reason why theworld is forced to put up with Israel’s misdeeds is becauseIsrael “controls the most powerful nation in the world,” he added.

Pointing out that every candidate for the Americanpresidency or Congress must first declare their supportfor Israel, Mahathir said: “It is as if criminals control and direct the police. There can be no securityfor people when the police take orders from andside with the criminals.

“We are really living in a lawless world, a primitiveworld,” declared Mahathir. “It is almost as if barbariansare again at the door. Only this time the barbarians are more powerful because they are welleducated.”

Asserting that “the law of the jungle governs usnow—the law by which the strong will take whatthey will and the weak will surrender what they must,” Mahathir described Israel as being at “the center of this collapse of human civilization—the Frankenstein monster created by the West.”

With the U.S. now unquestioningly obeyingIsrael, Mahathir concluded, “there is no way forus to return to civilization, to feel secure, to be free of political and economic oppression. This is becausethere is no one willing or capable of challenging thebully, the most powerful but least humane nation in the world.”

Superpower or Pathetic Vassal State?

The U.S. government and its subject peoplesthink of the United States as “theworld’s only superpower.” But how is acountry a superpower when its entiregovernment and a majority of the subjects, especiallythose members of evangelical churches,grovel at the feet of the Israeli prime minister? How is a country a superpower when it lacks thepower to determine its own foreign policy in theMiddle East? Such a country is not a superpower. It is a puppet state.

In the past month we have witnessed, yet again,the “American superpower” groveling at BenjaminNetanyahu’s feet. When Netanyahu decided to again murder the Palestinian women and childrenof Gaza, to further destroy what remains of the socialinfrastructure of the Gaza Ghetto, and to declare Israeli war crimes and Israeli crimes againsthumanity to be merely the exercise of “self-defense,”the Senate, the House of Representatives, the White House and the U.S. media all promptlydeclared their support for Netanyahu’s crimes.

On November 16 the Congress of the “superpower,” both House and Senate, passed overwhelminglythe resolutions written for them by AIPAC, the Israel lobby known as the American Israel Public AffairsCommittee, the only foreign agent that is notrequired to register as a foreign agent. Both Democrats and Republicans shared the dishonor ofserving Israel and evil instead of America and justicefor the Palestinians.

Netanyahu’s Israel is the equivalent of the LincolnRepublicans 150 years ago. Then there was nointernational law to protect Southern states, who left the voluntary union, a right under the Constitution,in order to avoid being exploited by Northernbusiness interests.

Today there is international law to protect thePalestinian residents of the West Bank and Gaza.However, every time that the world tries to holdthe Israeli government accountable for its crimes, Israel’s D.C. puppet vetoes the UN decision.

The notion that Israel is threatened by Palestiniansis as absurd as the notion that the U.S. isthreatened by Afghanistan, Iraq, Libya, Yemen,Syria, Somalia and Iran. No government of any of these countries has ever made a threatening statementagainst the U.S. Even had such a statement been made, it would be meaningless. If a superpowercan be threatened by such impotent anddistant countries, then it is not a superpower.

Demonizing a victim is a way of hiding statecrimes. The American print and TV media is uselessas a check on state crimes. The only crimesreported by the media are assigned to “terrorists,” that is, those who resist U.S. hegemony, and toAmericans, such as Bradley Manning, who liberates truth from official secrecy. Julian Assange ofWikiLeaks remains in danger despite the asylumgranted to him by the president of Ecuador, asWashington has little regard for international law.

In the U.S. the exercise of the First Amendmentis coming to be regarded as a crime against thestate. The purpose of the media is no longer to find the truth, but to protect official lies. Speaking thetruth has essentially disappeared as it is too costlyto journalists who dare to do so. To keep one’s job, one serves Washington and the private interest groups that Washington serves.

Paul Craig Roberts is a former assistant undersecretary of the U.S. Treasury and former associate editor of The Wall Street Journal. He is the author of many books including The Tyranny of Good Intentions, Alienation and the SovietEconomy, How the Economy Was Lost and others.

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